`Nuclear Weapons Are Not The Great Equalizer.'

PUB. DATE

January 1999

SOURCE

Aviation Week & Space Technology;1/18/1999, Vol. 150 Issue 3, p70

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Comments on the importance of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. Statements of several countries on nuclear weapons; Nuclear test of India and Pakistan; Ways to devaluate nuclear weapons as a currency of power.

ACCESSION #

1506864

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